Re: [PATCH pve-container] lxc: pass hostname correctly when giving up an ip address

["Elias Huhsovitz" <e.huhsovitz@proxmox.com>]

Needs rebase onto master.

I was unable to find any mention of a container 'name' in the guest config.

I checked the config for all of my containers, and the $conf in 
always contains a 'hostname' key, never a 'name'.

So consider this

Reviewed-by: Elias Huhsovitz <e.huhsovitz@proxmox.com>
Tested-by: Elias Huhsovitz <e.huhsovitz@proxmox.com>

On Wed Aug 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM CEST, Hannes Laimer wrote:
> A container has no `name`, only a `hostname`. This led to left behind
> DNS records.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
> index 7c81834..41dd22f 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
> @@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@ sub vmconfig_apply_pending {
>                              PVE::Network::SDN::Vnets::del_ips_from_mac(
>                                  $old_net->{bridge},
>                                  $old_net->{hwaddr},
> -                                $conf->{name},
> +                                $conf->{hostname},
>                              );
>                              PVE::Network::SDN::Vnets::add_next_free_cidr(
>                                  $net->{bridge},